"I say we play funemployed," Piper chimed in.
Hazel invited a few friends over for a game night and a movie. It started out simple enough with a few board games then we moved onto card games.
Nico won most of the board games just to piss someone off, it depended on whose team he was on. Let me tell you, you never want him and Annabeth playing anything spelling related. We learned that the hard way.
They were so competitive they broke a chair trying to win a game of spoons. Don't ask.
At this point, most everyone was either drunk or tipsy, other than Nico and Frank both of whom didn't drink. I was starting to feel the effects of the fruity drink Reyna handed me.
We all took a seat around the coffee table in the living room. Everyone who played sat closer and for the ones siting it out like Nico, Annabeth, and Hazel they just sat on the couch and chairs.
Leo opened the small box and looked at the instructions for no more than a minute before throwing them off to the side.
"Leo!" Piper yelled.
"Pipes it's fine, we are playing this the Leo way."
Everyone tried to voice there worry about playing it the 'Leo way' but he just ignored us.
"Okay I am going to be the employer for this round and you guys have to come up with reasons why I should hire you for the job. In basic terms, I pick a random job card and you all have four qualification cards, that you have to work into your guess."
He handed out the cards and flipped over the job card. Putting his hands 'professionally' on the coffee table he straightened his posture trying to look business like.
"Who is here for the architect job?" Leo asked.
At that moment everyone stopped what they were doing and turned to Annabeth who was basically an architect by now. She waved it off and we turned our attention back on the game.
Percy went first.
"I would be good for the job because I can turn my wrath into a good work ethic, you would be shocked to see how that works. I used to whittle wood before I took an interest in buildings but my balls got in the way."
"How does that even happen?" Leo grimaced at the thought. Percy shook his head. "You sir, do not want the gory details of summer 2013."
Thalia snorted. "I kinda wanna know now."
When I join in on the game the job was a gym teacher and Piper was the employer. She found a baseball cap and put it on backward. For some reason, she thought it would be good to have a New Jersey accent.
"So, which one of ya chumps is gonna get the job?"
I focus on the four cards in my hand trying to figure out a way they could work together. I got weird cards at least for a teaching position I guess. But that was the point of the game to have weird borderline creepy qualifications.
When it got to my turn I still hadn't thought of something so I winged it. I turned up my southern accent to help my case.
"Howdy, I'm uh lookin' for a new job so I can afford to live out of my spaceship. But don't worry it would be perfect to keep the youngsters in because I have a soundproof room, perfect for screaming kids. To help them win whatever sports and stuff I might know a guy who likes my southern accent and who will give us free Adderall in turn.
"YOu're hired! The soundproof room had me sold." Piper laughed.
I shuffled the job cards and picked one at random. "Archaeologist," I told them before handing out four cards to everyone that was still playing.
Thalia, Frank, Piper, Percy, and Leo so far have been the only ones playing. I was going to get Nico to play even if it killed me.
I picked Thalia for the job because to me it was the funniest, I'm a great employer thank you very much.
"I the one to hire for the job because I have a conservative way of making the people around me listen to me. I envy going to the top of this small shithole of a company, but I do have a confession. Only my wife and former pastor Joe know this but I have erectile dysfunction so that can get in the way of my . . . job."
On the last round, Nico joined us much to his better judgment. "You so owe me, Solace," he whispered before taking a seat on the floor.
Thalia downed her drink before throwing a mess of cards at us. "Everyone have four?"
I counted my cards and nodded, Reyna threw some cards back at her girlfriend before we began the round.
"You are all here for the new bartender position, our last person was murde- passed away."
We all took our turns, Nico waited to go last and every so often moving around his cards. He looked half amused and irritated by them.
"Neek's you're up," Hazel said warmly.
"I uh, I'd be a good bartender because I make my ADHD my bitch when it comes to multitasking. I give out treats such as condoms to all the nice customers, but I would have limited room considering I am trapped in the closet."
We all burst out laughing his was by far the best one of the night. "The homo gets the job!" Thalia shouted in a giggle fit.
A few drinks later I found myself pushed into a bedroom closet with none other than Nico. "You got seven minutes, make the best of it," Leo and Piper said with a matching wink. Might I say that was a creepy thing to witness.
"We should probably tell them we are dating I guess," Nico chuckled seeming just as weirded out by the wink as I was. "Probably, wanna mess with them?" I asked with a smirk.
"Definitely."
I couldn't see anything so I felt around till I found Nico, you would be shocked to know how big the closet was. "Get your hand off my face, dipshit."
Laughing I pulled us both against the wall or maybe it was the door I am not sure. "Just start moaning and scream stuff," I told him.
To my surprise he did. "Ah Will, harder, ahh." I kissed him a few times to keep myself from laughing. Part of me wished we were at home actually making out and not forced into his sister's closet to play seven minutes in heaven.
I moaned along waiting for someone to open the door or tell us to shut up but no one did. Nico moved his hands up to my hair and messed it up. "Keep your mouth shut," he warned me before talking again.
"Right there, daddy!"
It took so much not to burst out laughing. He covered my mouth which didn't do too much and a few seconds later the door opened to reveal our friends.
They looked shocked and horrified at first then when they realized we were both just standing there fully dressed and they almost looked disappointed. I swear to the gods I heard someone boo.
Nico grinned. "Seriously, you think we would have sex in the closet? Wait the sounded bad."
Piper frowned. "So Will isn't your daddy?"
I was glad I drank a few cups of whatever Reyna kept handing me because otherwise, I would have been so embarrassed. Instead, I just laughed and nodded just to fluster Nico.
"Wait no- I mean we are dating, bu-"
Piper cut him off with a squeal. "Did you say you gays are dating?!"
Nico nodded before she hugged him. "YAY, Leo pay up bitch," she said in a slur. Hazel questioned Nico if it was true that we were actually dating not faking it and she congratulated us. Frank like most of the others, said they knew and wondered how long it would take for us to come to our senses and start to realize it too.
Turns out they also had their bets.
We watched a movie before leaving trying to sober everyone up enough to get home whether that meant driving or in Thalia and Reyna's case an uber. There was no way either of them could drive.
I waited at the door for Nico as he talked with Hazel, I couldn't hear too much other than whispers. "I know it's getting around that time of year-" he cut her off with a soft kiss on the cheek and a goodbye.
Whatever it was he did not want to talk about it, but he trusted Hazel more than anyone. I can't say I didn't wonder what it was but I knew better than pry into his personal life, if he wants to talk I'm here and if he doesn't than I still am here.
"Ready?"
He nodded and took my hand before we walked out into the night.